Here’s a distillation of the best and worst of our trip around the world. We lots of fun putting this together during the final weeks of our trip. Most useful item we brought with us: Mitch’s swiss army knife. We used it for everything from extracting a sea urchin spine from Mitch’s foot at the […]
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The Trip of a Lifetime
For five years this trip loomed over the horizon. For nearly a year now it has been reality. Soon, it will be part of our family history. It has been a grand trip, a great trip, one never to be forgotten. Understanding what we have accomplished on this trip will be better understood as we […]
Reflections on China
This was my first visit to China, if you do not count Hong Kong. Margit was in China in 1987, so she has some perspective on the changes in China. My observations on changes, though, have to be based on what I have read, and the small bit of China that we saw. That said, […]
Forbidden (City) Pleasures
We saved the best for the last couple of days of our foreign travels, or at least some of the best. It was not planned that way. We had originally planned to spend a month in China, but when we made some changes to our itinerary, we were unable to get a flight from Bali […]
Dive Time
Our first stop in Indonesia was Lembongan Island, a small island within sight of the island of Bali. We decided to go to Lembongan because it was reputed to be quiet, laid-back, scenic, and has good diving. The guide book describes Lembongan as the Bali you would have found 20 years ago. Not that the […]
An Image of Nepal – Complete with Photos (5/13)
Nepal. The name brings so many wonderful, positive images. Most of these are a result of traveling there 33 years ago as a college student, but many simply come from its reputation as the rooftop of the world . We were there for 12 days, March 25-April 5. It was a great experience for all […]
Thank You EPA
Part of the value of travel is to remind oneself of the things we have that we sometimes take for granted. Off and on for the last five months one of the things I have been really appreciative from home is the nice air quality. Granted, there are times during the winter when Boise has […]
Seeing the Taj Mahal
Before we left on our trip there were five buildings or structures that everyone wanted to see: the Coliseum, the Eiffel Tower, the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, and the Great Wall. On the 15th we saw the Taj. For myself, I have previously seen the first four places on this list, and would have ranked […]
Bigger is Not Better
Saturday night, March 12th, we arrived in Delhi, India. In several ways, it was going back in time for us. First off, because we had to set our watches back 1.5 hours. (Why the half hour?). Also, though, because Delhi reminded us all of Cairo; big, crowded, dirty, noisy, and chaotic. While walking the streets […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The act of traveling to a country reminds me of one of the truths of quantum physics; the act of observing will change the thing you are observing. With a lot of tourists in an area, things change. It can improve an area; roads need to be built or improved to move people around, ruins […]
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